Sentiment Analysis of the Coronavirus Vaccine on Social Media

The rapid spread of Internet use has allowed people to access social media more easily. Especially after the Coronavirus epidemic, some restrictions and people’s working from home caused them to use social media intensively. While the Coronavirus epidemic continues its affect all over the world, developments related to vaccines are followed with interest by people. Conversations and shares about vaccines and vaccine brands continue to increase. It’s a fact that social media has attracted the attention of society even to any ordinary subject and has almost become a decision-making mechanism. The thoughts and feelings of many people about the vaccine can be extremely decisive for society. People’s attitudes towards vaccines can change throughout the pandemic process. Therefore, this study focuses to learn and monitor people’s feelings about the vaccine over a period of time. On the Reddit platform, which has no character limit for posts, the data is pre-processed to classify comments into emotional tags. The data was subjected to a series of training processes to classify with higher accuracy using the Natural Language Understanding (NLU) library. Then people’s emotional changes related to the vaccine monitored on a monthly basis.